... I have been for several days in a remote part of India with little or no
Internet access. I only learned this morning that EssJay used his false
credentials in content disputes. I understood this to be primarily the
matter of a pseudonymous identity (something very mild and completely
understandable given the personal dangers possible on the Internet) and
not a matter of violation of people's trust. I want to make it
perfectly clear that my past support of EssJay in this matter was fully
based on a lack of knowledge about what has been going on. Even now, I
have not been able to check diffs, etc.

I have asked EssJay to resign his positions of trust within the
community. In terms of the full parameters of what happens next, I
advise (as usual) that we take a calm, loving, and reasonable approach.
From the moment this whole thing became known, EssJay has been
contrite and apologetic. People who characterize him as being "proud"
of it or "bragging" are badly mistaken.

On a personal level, EssJay has apologized to me, and I have accepted
his apology on a personal level, and I think this is the right thing to
do. If anyone else feels that they need or want a personal apology,
please ask him for it. And if you find it to be sincere, then I hope
you will accept it too, but each person must make their own judgments.
Despite my personal forgiveness, I hope that he will accept my
resignation request, because forgiveness or not, these positions are not
appropriate for him now.

I still have limited net access... for a couple of hours here I will be
online, and then I am offline until I am in Japan tomorrow morning. I
beleive I will have a fast and stable Internet connection at that time,
and I will deal with this further at that time.

Wikipedia is built on (among other things) twin pillars of trust and
tolerance. The integrity of the project depends on the core community
being passionate about quality and integrity, so that we can trust each
other. The harmony of our work depends on human understanding and
forgiveness of errors.

Rogers, I'm not a very forgiving person. Perhaps a flaw in my nature. I find it hard to be generous when a statement still has a lot of falseness in it, even if that's a political necessity. I'm bad at politics.